Our Saved Orders tool helps you get prepared by giving you the ability to set up and save up to 50 trades for future use without actually placing them. Now we’ve made this convenient feature even better by allowing you to save orders by either quantity or dollar amount.

On the Saved Orders page (and the Saved Orders section on the trade page) the column formerly known as Qty is now the Qty/Amt column, allowing you to save an order as a dollar amount ($100.00) or as a quantity (20).

Now you can get important option pricing information like Implied Volatility, Delta, Gamma, Rho, Theta and Vega by simply rolling your mouse over a particular call or put on one of our chains pages.

New Rollover Greeks are available on the following chain pages:

- Futures Call
- Futures Put
- Futures Call and Put
- Equity Call
- Equity Put

Futures traders can choose to Offset, Reverse or now Roll their trades directly from the Positions page.

The new Roll option will take your current positions and auto-populate the closing and opening trade into the spread form.

August means back-to-school time, so if you’re looking to fill up that new Trapper Keeper or break in your compass and protractor set, settle in for an optionsXpress webinar to learn a little something new about trading.

We’re featuring a couple of great sessions for fans of technical analysis next week:

August 10 – Introduction to Acceleration Bands with Price Headley

August 11 – Introduction to Applying Fibonacci Retracements with Jason Ayers

So get the most out of the dog days of summer – sign up for one of these FREE webinar presentations today.

Now you can stretch your strategic wings even further at optionsXpress.

New trade variations now available on our Xspreads and Multi-Leg trade pages might help open up a whole array of fresh possibilities:

Broken-Wing Butterflies – Construct butterflies with non-standard ratios such as 1:2:2 and 1:3:1

Unbalanced Butterflies – Set up butterflies with asymmetric (uneven) strike price differentials

Ratio Spreads – Enjoy additional free-form spreading options

Multi-leg option strategies are subject to multiple commissions. Profits may be eroded by the commission expended to open and close the positions and other risks apply.

Being a conscientious investor doesn’t have to be complicated. Our latest helpful tool compiles all of the information on shareholder events and material distributions for the investments that you own in one convenient place.

From the new Shareholder Services area, optionsXpress clients can:

- Submit voting proxies electronically

- Set up AutoVote or SpeedVote functionality based on a set of standard voting guidelines

- Receive electronic versions of shareholder communications and mutual fund prospectuses

Get your month off to a great start – right off the bat – with a trio of FREE investing webinars on Tuesday, September 1. Pick your favorite topic or settle in for all three:

12:00 PM – Monthly Futures Outlook with Jim Wyckoff

A fast-paced, straightforward look at what might be in store for dozens of commodities markets.

1:30 PM – Options Dunk Tank with Steve Meizinger

Come one, come all to try and stump our industry vet with your options puzzlers.

8:30 PM – The Condor Flies Again with Mike Tosaw

Will this options strategy take wing in your portfolio?

(All times are CDT)

If you’re not using the myOX portal, you’re missing out on a chance to mix and match more than a dozen separate modules to configure the optionsXpress site to show only the market and account information you want to see exactly the way you want to see it.

Now you can make the myOX experience even more personalized by opting for either the original two-column view or our new three-column page layout, which allows you to display even more modules at once.